Knuckle Curve » peter_angelos http://www.everyjoe.com/knucklecurve Major League Baseball News from Spring Training to the World Series Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:55:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Baltimore Bullpen Blows http://www.everyjoe.com/knucklecurve/baltimore-bullpen-blows/ http://www.everyjoe.com/knucklecurve/baltimore-bullpen-blows/#comments Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:52:38 +0000 Geoff Young http://www.knucklecurve.com/baltimore-bullpen-blows/ Post from: Knuckle Curve

]]> I have a hard time imagining that this is what Peter Angelos expected when he laid out serious cash to “fix” his team’s beleaguered bullpen. I wondered at the time what Angelos was thinking, and with news that the Orioles have placed right-hander Danys Baez on the disabled list due to a “forearm strain,” Baltimore’s woes have reached a new low. Here’s how their three big free-agent signings from this past winter (Baez, Chad Bradford, and Jamie Walker) have fared to date:

Baltimore “Big Three” Relievers
  $M IP ERA H/9 HR/9 BB/9 K/9
Stats are through games of June 17, 2007, and are courtesy of ESPN.
Walker 3.00 25.1 3.55 8.53 0.36 2.49 6.75
Bradford 3.00 26.1 3.76 11.28 0.00 2.05 5.47
Baez 4.00 29.0 6.52 8.38 1.86 4.97 5.28
Total 10.00 80.2 4.69 9.37 0.78 3.24 5.80
AL average – – 4.23 8.60 0.84 4.10 7.10

According to Cot’s Baseball Contracts, all three of these guys have deals that run through 2009. Next year, they will cost the Orioles a combined $12.5 million, and the year after that, they’ll cost $13.5 million. And they’ll eat up three spots in the bullpen as well.

The bad news is, Baltimore won’t be able to trade any of these relievers without absorbing some of the cost. (Same with Ramon Hernandez, but as a catcher, he falls under a different subcategory of Truly Awful Ideas). The good news is, Baez isn’t likely to collect the extra $1 million he would earn by being the team leader in Rolaids points.

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